Fire-kindler.



PATENTBD JAN. '7` 1908.

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TILED JULY 13. 1907.

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JOSEPH H. PELHAM, OF SCRA'NTON, 'MISSISSIPPI'. i i I FIRE-HNDLER.

No. 876,227. i Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan. 7, .1908.

Application lednl'uly 13. 1907. Serial No. 383.568.

To all whom it 'may concern: have shown the upper end of the 'vertical I S'e 1t known that I, JOSEPH H. PELHAM, a hanger bar i6 as being provided with a cltizen of the United States, .residing at clamping member 9, adapted to iit over the Scranton, in the county of Jackson and!I upper bar of the grate 1, which clampin'go tate of Mississippi, have invented certain means is vertically adjustable on said bar 6 new and useful Improvements in Fireby means of the apertured end 10 and'set Kindlers; and I do hereby declare the folscrew 11. lowing to be a t'ull, clear, and exact descri 12 designates a pan forforming a heating tion oi the invention, such as will enablb 'chamber 13 below the grate! This panisof-' others skilled in the art to which it apperelongated form, comprising a' front wall 145, a

tains to make and use the same. rear wall 15 and side walls. The top of the This invention comprises means for startpan is open, and the bottom thereof is proing a fire, and broadly consists in initially vided with the inclining rear portion 16 ter? l introducing within a heating chamber below iinating in a depending trough, having a 15 a grate a hydrocarbon oil, igniting said oil curved rear wall 17 and a'vertical frontwall for heating said chamber, and subsequently 18, the forward portion of the bottom of the introducing more oil to the then-heated pan being formed by a horizontal portion 19 chamber and also air, and thence passing the extending between the lower and upper ends, j carburet'ed product in a burning flame respectively, of th`e iront wall 14'of the an 75 2c through the coals in the grate. and the front wall 18 of the trough. lhe

It will be understood that the invention .pan on its, rear wall is provided with a pluby slight modifications may be made applirality of air inlets 20, and the vertical iront cable to any kind of ire, whether in an open wall 11i is similarly provided with a plurality grate or otherwise, but for simplicity of illusof air inlets 2la or instead the horizontal 80 425 tration the same 1s shown and described as bottom portion may be so provided as at 21.

applied to an open grate. It'will also be un- In order to rigidly support the pan, I also derstood that while I do not limit myself to provide a' forward brace comprising ametalthe exact details of construction'shown and lic plate 22 securely affixed to the front wall described, still for the purpose of disclosure 14, as by rivets, and 'projecting downwardly V85 reference is had to the accompanying drawforward ol said trough. T he iront wall. of ings illustrating a'practical embodiment of the trough and also the depending plate 22 'the invention, in which like letters designate arc aperturcd to receive a short length of the same part-s in the several views, and in pipe 23, the inner end oiE which maybe in the whichform of a nozzle and projects within the 35 Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device i trough portion of the pan in such a manner applied to an open grate.. Fig. 2 is a vertical i that the incoming oil is sprayed against the section through the device; parts being inclining bottom of the pan. The outer end shown in elevation, and Fig. 3 is a section on of the shortA length pipe projects beyond the the line 3*3, F ig. 1,`.looking'in the-direction plate 22 and may be screw-threaded to re- 95 e0 of the arrows. ceiv'e the end of the pipe 5. The short length of pipe may also be held in position in any suitable way, as for instance by the jam nuts 24.

Any suitable means may be provided for 10c l designates `,a grate, 2 a tank for the hyl drocarbon oil provided with a discharge nipple 3 controlled by agneedle valve 4, the pipe 5 forming a communicating conduit between 4.5 said tank and the heating chamber hereinigniting the oil trough. A simple construcafter referred to. The .lower end of the pipe l tion is the asbestos lighter 23', as shown in 5 is preferably horizontally disposed, and the trough adjacent the nozzle end of the connectedvto-said pipe is a hanger bar 6, pipe apertured at its lower end, as at 7, to re- 5o ceive said pipe 5, said apertured lower lend being provided with a set screw 8 for adjustably connecting said hanger bar on said pipe. Any suitable clamping means may be provided for supporting said-hanger bar in po- C) operation., the device being secured in position, a small quantityoi oil is introduced into the trough and ignited, The llame from this burning oil will heat the walls oi the pan l to such an extent that the chamber ,13 is-llo op sition, but in illustrating the device as apmaintained in a highly heated state, and

plied to an open grate, in the drawings I upon the introduction ci a' controlled iiow of From the foregohw, it will be seen that in said pan be ow a grate,

- oil through thepipe into the pan, the vsame becomes vaporized and mixed with incoming an', and the carbureted product is conducted through the coals in the form of a yhighly heated flame.

ofsaid 'p'an extendlng in a horizontal planeabove said trough, air inlets being provided in the rear and in the forward portion of said pan,-of means for introducing a hydrocarbon oil to Asaid an, and means for supporting substantially as described. l

2. The com ination with a pan forming a heating chamber, of an ignition means in the an, an oil supply tank, a pipe connection etween said tank and said pan, and means for securin said pan beneath the grate, comi prising a an er barl supporting said pipe connection, an

provided at its upper end Y with an adjustable clamping member, substantialiy as described.

3. The combination with a pan having an inclined rear base wall terminating in a depending trough and provided with air inlets,

the front wall of said trough shaped member being aperturcd, of a brace mem er compris-` ing a depending plate secured to the front uwall of said pan and provided in its depending portion with an aperture alining .with said trough aperture,k a pipepassing through said apertures and 'forming a nozzle within said trough, a tank,.a v,alv e for said tank, a pipe communicating with the valved opening of said tank at one end7 and at its other end connected to said inst-mentioned pipe, and

means for supporting said device with said pan beneath a grate comprising a bracket consisting of an arm adjustably' connected at one end to said last mentioned pipe andat its other end provided with an-adjustable clamp, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JGSEPH H. PELHAM.

Witnesses:

L. D. WAL'roN, J., A. PELHAM.. 

